Education: Harkness Lampooned

The Harvard sense of humor is often tinged with sadness. Last week, Harvard men smiled melancholic smiles as they viewed a new issue of the Lampoon, Harvard's funnypaper. The Lampoon had "done it again."

This time it was about Tycoon Edward Stephen Harkness, whose recent gift of $13,000,000 has made possible at Harvard an adaptation of the Oxford "inner, college" idea (TIME, Jan. 7). Sneered the Lampoon: "Now that Harkness has shelled a sufficient number of berries we have got to put on our glad rags and...

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